World Bank head pledges AIIB support

The World Bank will soon have what some describe as a competitor: the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

While Washington has criticised Beijing over the new institution, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has pledged to work closely with the AIIB because he says the enemy is poverty - not other institutions.

The BBC's correspondent Michelle Fleury sat down with President Kim in Washington.

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